QUIZ: How well do you know Santa Claus?

12/24/2013

His race and ethnicity may still be up for debate, but there are some things we know for sure about the guy in the big red suit. You can probably name his home town, and you might even be able to list all of his reindeer, but how well do you know Santa Claus?

B. Turkey. “Saint Nicholas is born into a family that probably considered itself to be ethnically Greek but in an area of the world that we now call Turkey. Historically, you can’t import a category like ‘white’ into fourth century Asia minor,” says Harvard Professor Laura Nasrallah, adding that the question is “nonsense” because Santa is a fictional character.